The Latest Breaking News from Poverty

THE UK Government’s “scandalous decision” to cut the eligibility of the Winter Fuel Payment will leave 85 of Scottish pensioners in poverty…

THE number of people in Scotland facing hunger and hardship has reached record levels, according to a report ...

Food bank network Trussell has developed term to define deep poverty – but what does this mean, who is affected by it, and why?

One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago

Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable pensioners aged 80 or over will miss out on fuel help this year, Age UK estimates

The Dominican Republic has deported or repatriated nearly 11,000 Haitians in the past week alone, fulfilling a pledge that it will do so weekly as neighboring Haiti scrambles to handle the influx, besieged by poverty and gang violence

A new study finds that unemployment and poverty are up and incomes are down among Maui wildfire survivors more than a year after a deadly blaze wiped out historic Lahaina

In the rural village of Téssékéré, the increasing number and intensity of droughts linked to climate change is making the lives and livelihoods of the local Fulani communities increasingly vulnerable. Here, in the northern Sahel desert region of Senegal (known as the Ferlo), the pastoral population walks over dry, dusty…

The Scottish Government is awarding grants of up to £80,000 to 12 local projects that support families in poverty around the country ...

Anne*, who lived in poverty with her two sons, wrote to Scott Morrison, Alan Tudge and Christian Porter about the unfair system but never heard back

MORE than 100 children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child cap every day since Labour took office, new research has found ...